Dirk Wachowiak

Germany

About

Dirk Wachowiak is a graphic designer with a focus on typography and type design. Besides his design practise he is a regular teacher for typography at Pforzheim University, School of Design and also gives lectures and workshops at other design institutions.

Together with Stefanie Schwarz he founded the Typographic Research Lab Open2Type.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

24 pt

He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.

14 pt

The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.

10 pt

The Metamorphosis is a short story, sometimes regarded as a novella, by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.